Author Archives: Caitlin Divers

The joint study between the UNC School of Medicine and the Orange County Health Department has been awarded a $21 million funding award from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to make pregnancy and birth safer for North Carolinians with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. Alison Stuebe, MD, is the UNC-Chapel...

Cen­ter­ing­Preg­nan­cy® is a model of pre­na­tal care that bring­s women who are due at the same time together for group appointments. Each two-hour appointment is conducted by a midwife and nurse, and includes belly checks, blood pressure testing, group discussion and visits from other specialists, including pediatricians, lactations consultants, physical...

A UNC Hospitals team is working to decrease the number of pregnant patients that have maternal anemia at the time of delivery, a condition that disproportionately affects Black patients and contributes significantly to maternal morbidity and mortality. The team is running a quality improvement project in partnership with the UNC...

Margaret Kasaro, MMed OBGYN, and others at the UNC School of Medicine and UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health have received a ~$3-million award from the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust to improve access to portable ultrasounds in routine antenatal care in Zambia.

Wendy R. Brewster, MD, PhD, a compassionate clinician-scientist who focused her career on caring for women with gynecologic cancer and studying at-risk populations and the disparate mechanisms leading to poor outcomes in endometrial, ovarian and cervical cancers, died of pancreatic cancer on July 24.